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The announcement that an agreement has been reached by the P5+1 (the five permanent members of the Security Council and Germany) and Iran has been met with equal degrees of enthusiasm, surprise and incredulity…

Imagine that the elected leader of a foreign country did this to a democratically elected ally: Implied that its president was a racist Implied its government’s policies were effectively racist Demanded…

Children brought into Italy by human traffickers
Alessandro Bianchi/Reuters
March 18, 2015

George W Bush had a very successful foreign policy. Those are words you don’t often read unedited in that order. But, yes, I wrote them. No, I am not joining the ranks of the neo-conservatives who popped…

This week’s open declaration of hostility by 47 Republican senators to any US agreement with Iran has generated much handwringing about the state of American domestic politics. The tone and manner of their…

Last week the race for the Republic presidential nomination was kicked off in earnest by the Conservative Political Action’s annual Conference. Yes, they all, predictably, want to “save our country” from…

It’ll take more than a winning smile to win over Africa.
Reuters
February 25, 2015

President Obama’s publication of his 2015 National Security Strategy on February 6th is the kind of event that generates great heat and discussion among a relatively small group of policymakers, pundits…

Why is the eastern US getting so much Arctic weather this winter?
Stuart Rankin/Flickr
February 18, 2015

Everyone loves to talk about the weather, and this winter Mother Nature has served up a feast to chew on. Few parts of the US have been spared her wrath. Severe drought and abnormally warm conditions continue…

How many of these do we really need?
Matt Sullivan/Reuters
February 9, 2015

In his recent budget announcement, President Obama staked out a negotiating position with Congressional Republicans by offering a sense of symmetry: a 7% increase in the military budget to balance out…

We have now had time to digest the tragic events in Paris. The press has made its predictable set of news cycles in the last two weeks. They have covered the actual events themselves. Then, in America…